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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his group through the inverted ship to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by true stories. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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